Oh no. Handshakes again. The Premier League confirmed its insatiable appetite for the overblown, the trivial and the faintly nasty with another John Terry-Anton Ferdinand confrontation as Ferdinand and several team-mates refused to shake hands with Terry before QPR's home fixture with Chelsea, a reprise of the summer's court-room drama over accusations (unproven) that Terry racially abused Ferdinand last season. In real actual European football news, Barcelona continued their 100% La Liga start with a 4-1 cuffing aside of Getafe and nouveau spendthrifts Paris Saint-Germain got into their gilded stride with a 2-0 defeat of Toulouse, Zlatan Ibrahimovic yawning in his fifth goal of the season.

Britain cycles ahead

Britain and France used to have things fairly well divvied up. They got wine, cheese and mime. We got pop music. They got existential philosophy, we just had getting on with things. This week though British cycling's concerted efforts to annexe France's most preciously guarded national sport reached new peaks as Jonathan Tiernan-Locke became the first Englishman to win the Tour of Britain, taking the title by 18 seconds from the Australian Nathan Haas. Mark Cavendish won a stunning final stage on Guildford high street. Tiernan-Locke, who looks very much like the next big thing, may now join Team Sky. Cycling: it's coming home.

ICC honour for Sangakkara

The rise of cricket's most inspirational wicketkeeper-batsman-intellectual continued as Kumar Sangakkara was named ICC cricketer of the year. Not such good news for Sangakkara's T20 team, the Deccan Chargers, though, who were booted out of the IPL due to what officials called "the absolute inability of the franchise to run the team", which does, to be fair, sound rather important. Deccan won the universe's giddiest, crotch-wigglingest, fan-shreikingest slogathon just three years ago. Happier times in England, where the underdog Hampshire franchise (founded: 1863) beat Warwickshire off the last ball of a stunning CB40 final as cricket finally made a mark on a great British summer of sport.

Bad week for boxing

Boxing: it's still going on. Not, though, a great week for the noble sport. First British fighter Michael Sprott attacked Swiss referee Gerhard Sigl, pushing him to the ground, after being stopped by Kazakhstan's Edmund Gerber in the fourth round at the Stechert Arena in Germany. Then ex-world champion Ricky Hatton's announcement of his own ill-advised return to the ring aged 34 was overshadowed by the arrest of his father, Ray Hatton, for assaulting him, Ricky Hatton, in a Manchester car park. Do keep up.